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Author | : Benjamin Harshav |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804755122 |
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This book is a collection of seminal essays on major aspects of Jewish culture: Yiddish and Hebrew literature, Europe, America and Israel, transformations of Jewish history, the Holocaust, and the formal traditions of Hebrew verse.
Author | : Glenda Abramson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1011 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134428650 |
Download Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Companion to Jewish Culture - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present was first published in 1989. It is a single-volume encyclopedia containing biographical and topic entries ranging from 200 to 1000 word each.
Author | : Glenda Abramson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anita Norich |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0472053019 |
Download Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating discussion of Jewish multiculturalism through the range of Jewish lingualisms, cultures, and history
Author | : Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0812240022 |
Download The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world—or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world—and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
Author | : Richard I. Cohen |
Publisher | : Hebrew Union College Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2014-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822980363 |
Download Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment have set the agenda for a distinctive historiographical approach to Jewish culture in early modern Europe, from 1500 to 1800. From his initial studies of Italy to his later work on eighteenth-century English, German, and Polish Jews, Ruderman has emphasized the individual as a representative or exemplary figure through whose life and career the problems of a period and cultural context are revealed. Thirty-one leading scholars celebrate Ruderman's stellar career in essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as it is intertwined in Jewish, European, Ottoman, and American history. The volume presents probing historical snapshots that advance, refine, and challenge how we understand the early modern period and spark further inquiry. Key elements explored include those inspired by Ruderman's own work: the role of print, the significance of networks and mobility among Jewish intellectuals, the value of extraordinary individuals who absorbed and translated so-called external traditions into a Jewish idiom, and the interaction between cultures through texts and personal encounters of Jewish and Christian intellectuals. While these elements can be found in earlier periods of Jewish history, Ruderman and his colleagues point to an intensification of mobility, the dissemination of knowledge, and the blurring of boundaries in the early modern period. These studies present a rich and nuanced portrait of a Jewish culture that is both a contributing member and a product of early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Ruderman has fostered a community of scholars from Europe, North America, and Israel who work in the widest range of areas that touch on Jewish culture. He has worked to make Jewish studies an essential element of mainstream humanities. The essays in this volume are a testament to the haven he has fostered for scholars, which has and continues to generate important works of scholarship across the entire spectrum of Jewish history.
Author | : Eliezer Schweid |
Publisher | : Academic Studies PRess |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 1934843059 |
Download The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of "Jewish culture." This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organizes and relates them from this vantage point. The first Jewish modernization movements perceived culture as the defining trait of the outside alien social environment to which Jewry had to adapt. To be "cultured" was to be modern-European, as opposed to medieval-ghetto-Jewish. In short order, however, the Jewish religious legacy was redefined retrospectively as a historical "culture," with fateful consequences for the conception of Judaism as a human and not only a divinely mandated regime. The conception of Judaism-as-culture took two main forms: an integrative, vernacular Jewish culture that developed in tandem with the integration of Jews into the various nations of western-central Europe and America, and a national Hebrew culture which, though open to the inputs of modern European society, sought to develop a revitalized Jewish national identity that ultimately found expression in the revival of the Jewish homeland and the State of Israel. This is a large, complex story in which the author describes the contributions of Mendelssohn, Wessely, Krochmal, Zunz, the mainstream Zionist thinkers (especially Ahad Ha-Am, Bialik, and A.D. Gordon), Kook, Kaplan, and Dubnow to the formulation of the various versions of the modern Jewish cultural ideal.
Author | : Nadia Valman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135048541 |
Download The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.
Author | : Ivan G. Marcus |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030015674X |
Download Rituals of Childhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end. This book--Ivan Marcus's erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage--presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe. Marcus traces ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman elements in the rite and then analyzes it from different perspectives, making use of narrative, legal, poetic, ethnographic, and pictorial sources, as well as firsthand accounts. He then describes contemporary medieval Christian images and initiation rites--including the eucharist and the Madonna and child--as contexts within which to understand the ceremony. He is the first to investigate how medieval Jews were aware of, drew upon, and polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages in order to affirm the truth of Judaism and to make sense of living as Jews in an intensely Christian culture.
Author | : Glenda Abramson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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